Gwen Stefani

[Roshan]

I probably would not be posting about Gwen Stefani if I didn't have an E-history with her. A few years ago Kilian posted in Enneatude or Archetribe questioning someone of some renown's typing her as a Four. I didn't know anything about her other than her name (despite how huge it turns out she was) and I very quickly typed her as a Three and mocked the Four typing and that was the end of it. Then she never really turned up again because I guess she's something of a has-been. But she turned up today on youtube and if I didn't have that bit of history I probably wouldn't have even looked at this youtube video. But I did so I did. Some things really stand out. She really turns out as exemplary of a L7 (or perhaps 6/7 'shock point dweller') Dishonest Opportunist sx 3w4 with a massive dollop of Self-Promoting Narcissist.

A commenter wrote:

@MISSMADISONMEDIA
3 weeks ago
The “blank slate” thing really nails it. She becomes whoever she dates or whoever she thinks will accept her in the moment. And before that, she became her brother and her band mates. She probably never developed an identity beyond 'I’m a girl”"

That just about sums it up--it's the vacuous identity shifting of low Three wedded (no pun intended) to the Male and Female (Ken and Barbie) gender roles of sx Three--an sx dom that is often more tamped down than most because it is subsumed to identity with a partner in a traditional relationship. Not that she is tamped down--far from--but she does epitomize the traditional sex roles, by now so far as to be mocked by the commentators as 'trad wife'.

What is missing from the commenter's post is the incipient malevolence of it all at those levels, not that you can't see it on her face.

I haven't actually listened to the whole thing yet but I listened to over half. If you don't you'll miss such tidbits as how she tried to trademark the place name Harajuku in the U.S. Another commenter wrote:


@jayemm7942
3 weeks ago
“ The four girls, whom Stefani named ’Love,’ ‘Angel,’ ‘Music’ and ‘Baby’ are actually professional dancers whose main job — other than performing onstage with Stefani — is to stand behind her and look cute. But the idea also evolved into a running theme on the album: Not only did she write a song dedicated to them ( Harajuku Girls ), but two other songs on Love, Angel, Music, Baby reference the Japanese fashionistas. 'I was thinking about calling the album Stolen Goods ,” she jokes. 'Or It Was Yours and Now It’s Mine .'”

Gwen Stefani: A Rock Goddess with Major Issues by Jenny Eliscu for Rolling Stone 27 January 2005

That kinda captures the incipient malevolence.

As for the rest of her typing, well the sx is sure to be [sx/so], whence the obsession with cultural appropriation and the becoming other cultures, as it were. I'm not sure of the stacking but she doesn't have enough porosity, emotional lability, to be SX/so. She might be sx/SO, moving straight into so/sp, and that would account for the Oneishness about her, despite her being most likely to be a triple attached 369, whence the emptiness of the void. The 3w4 will be sw 2w3 (she is very far from the Five space), the Six will be 'all the way in Seven', and the Nine may be 9w18w9 though it could be 'all the way in One' hard side (in contrast to the wispy ones and which would also account for the Oneishness). I would have to watch actual interviews (well, at least one; don't know if there's enough to her to warrant more, she is bound to be quite transparent), and well, I will, I will. But let this stand for now.

btw the resemblance to Madonna is at times uncanny. At one point (also no pun intended) I retyped Madonna as 2w3 lead, influenced by Sylvia's typing of her, but I was wrong. She is a Three--one instance where the old eidb typings turned out to be right--and also triple attached [sx/so].